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transmission package

  1. Bug #538504
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 538504

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote : Re: [UIFe] transmission measures bandwidth in KB/s instead of kB/s

I think this bug is worth a freeze exception. We try to increase the consistency of the desktop in Ubuntu. Leaving some parts unpatched will lead to more user confusion than the policy will reduce it - especial when one application use base-10 and base-2 both with SI prefixes.

Changing the input unit from KiB to kB will decrease the value by 2.3 % if you do not adjust the value. In my opinion a conversion of the user's settings from 1024 to 1000 is not required. What do you think?

The Technical Board decided on the units policy. This will lead to inconsistency between Ubuntu and other distributions, but will increase the consistency in Ubuntu. I hope that other distributions will follow Ubuntu or at least stop using SI prefixes for base-2.

Using g_format_size_for_display() + "/s" will lead to a consistent application on the platform - independent from the used binary.